[Digikam-devel] New UI mockup on KDE brainstorms

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/5/18 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> In my opinion the second one has several ideas that are not valid, at least
> for me:
>
> 1. You already can display only the filename if you want to, and display all
> the other information in the tooltip
>
> 2. Moving the search bar for the folder view into the status bar is very
> confusing, because now you don't see their relation anymore. You have two
> lineinput fields beside each other, both entitled with "search".
>
> 3. Remove one marble icon: Hmm these are two different panels. We should
> either add a magnifying glass two the left marble icon or create a totally new
> icon, but removing it is wrong. But maybe I misunderstood his point, and he
> was really only talking about the icon, not the panel.
>
>
> About the first screenshot:
> I already said that we need an option to turn off those overlays, especially
> the "full size preview" label. They are very annoying. I already read
> complains in some Linux forum that the new digiKam became "ugly" and that it
> throws annoying information at you :-) ...and that we don't go the KDE way,
> that allows to configure your application the way you want....
>
> Well anyway the first screenshot is basically a visual improvement, I think it
> is ok. But we definitely need to provide an option to turn those overlays off
> again.

The preview widget is under porting to pure Qt4 by Marcel in GSoC
devel branch. After that we can add an option somewhere in Control
panel to switch on/off this annotation.

For a lots of users which use raw, this annotation is important,
especially to learn the program, and to know that we can load jpeg
preview or Raw image data in preview area. The result is different and
confuse users if no information is given. i remember a lots of report
in user ML about this subject.

About Forum, i read a lots of report about F-spot which is better than
digiKam. F-spot is more easy to handle than digiKam. Perhaps, but
digiKam is more pro like iface. Also, let's me use f-spot more than 5
mns, and i can crash it very quickly. This project is not serious for
me.

Gilles